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Location Tracking

Zach Pennington edited this page Nov 7, 2021 · 10 revisions

The location tracking module allows for the analysis of a single animal's location on a frame by frame basis. In addition to providing the user the with the ability to crop the portion of the video frame in which the animal will be, it also allows the user to specify regions of interest (e.g. left and right sides) and provides tools to quantify the time spent in each region, as well as distance travelled.

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Basic Workflow for Location Tracking

  1. Process several individual behavior videos with LocationTracking_Individual.ipynb. This will allow extensive visualization of results in order to ensure confidence in selected parameters.
  2. Once you are comfortable with parameters, use LocationTracking_Batch.ipynb on a whole folder of videos.

For a step-by-step guide to using ezTrack's Location Tracking Module, see:

Pennington ZT, Diego KS, Francisco TR, LaBanca AR, Lamsifer SI, Liobimova O, Shuman T, Cai DJ (2021). ezTrack – A step by step by step guide to behavior tracking. Current Protocols in Neuroscience, 1(10):e255.